Pikeville is a city in and the county seat of Pike County, Kentucky, United States. During the 2020 U.S. Census, the population within Pikeville’s city limits was 7,754.
In Kentucky’s current city classification system, Pikeville is a home rule-class city, a category that includes whatever of the state’s higher than 400 cities except for the two largest, Louisville and Lexington.

On March 25, 1822, state officials settled to build a additional county seat named “Liberty”, 1.5 miles (2.4 km) below the mouth of the Russell Fork River. Public disapproval of the site led a supplementary decision upon December 24, 1823, to pronounce the county seat upon land donated by local farmer Elijah Adkins. This concurrence was traditional as the town of Pike after the county in 1824. This was misused in 1829 to Piketon and the town was incorporated below that broadcast in 1848. In 1850, this was misused to the present Pikeville. Pikeville was host to a portion of the Hatfield-McCoy feud, and patriarch Randall McCoy as skillfully as his wife and daughter are buried upon a hillside overlooking the town.

The National Civic League designated Pikeville as an All-American City in 1965.

From 1973 to 1987, the Pikeville Cut-Through was constructed immediately west of downtown. The colossal rock cut is one of the largest civil engineering projects in the western hemisphere, moving nearly 18,000,000 cubic yards (14,000,000 m) of soil and rock. The project alleviated traffic congestion in downtown and eliminated flooding by rerouting the Levisa Fork River.